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* AbusivePrecursors: The Mericanii enslaved their human subjects for processing power and invented a number of terrible superweapons that Kharn Sagara won't even use.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Mericanii enslaved their human subjects for processing power and invented a number of terrible superweapons that even Kharn Sagara won't even use.
* KilledOffscreen: Possibly; after Hadrian reports its existence to the Emperor, William claims that he had it destroyed. Earlier in the series however, Hadrian as the narrator implied that he sometimes travels pack to the Mericanii vault and wonders if the daemon is still behind that door.
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* AmericanRobot: Given a very American-sounding name and responsible for [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld the American dominance over all of human space]]
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* AmericanRobot: Given Named after a very American-sounding name classic [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification) personification of America]] and was responsible for [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld the American dominance over all of human space]]
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* {{God}}: Emperor William believes the Quiet is actually God (or close enough) and that the GodEmperor should be more properly known as ''God's Emperor''.
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Thought to be a mysterious, ancient race whose ruins can be found across the galaxy, the Quiet are the true subject of Valka's studies. In truth, the Quiet ([[spoiler: known as the Firstborn to a knowledgeable few in the Sollan Empire]]) is a powerful entity that will exist in the future, one that experiences time in reverse. The Quiet's future existence is somehow contingent on humanity triumphing over the Cielcin, and to that end it has interfered with the life of Hadrian Marlowe to ensure that that happens.
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Thought to be a mysterious, ancient race whose ruins can be found across the galaxy, the Quiet are the true subject of Valka's studies. In truth, the Quiet ([[spoiler: known as the Firstborn to a knowledgeable few in the Sollan Empire]]) is a powerful entity that will exist in the future, one that experiences time in reverse. The Quiet's future existence is somehow contingent on humanity triumphing over the Cielcin, and to that end it has interfered with the life of Hadrian Marlowe to ensure that that happens.
* CosmicEgg: Hadrian sees a vision of an egg connected to a high-tech cradle, and is given the understanding that this will somehow birth the Quiet. A piece of that egg's shell appears in his hand afterward.
* HighTechHeaven: The Quiet's cradle contains various high-tech devices of unknown purpose connected to its egg.
* IHaveManyNames: "The Quiet" is a borrowed term from xenology, one that Hadrian uses for lack of a better option. The Quiet is also known as Utannash to the the Cielcin, [[spoiler: and The Firstborn to [=HAPSIS=]]].
* IHaveManyNames: "The Quiet" is a borrowed term from xenology, one that Hadrian uses for lack of a better option. The Quiet is also known as Utannash to the the Cielcin, [[spoiler: and The Firstborn to [=HAPSIS=]]].
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The gods of the Cielcin. Hadrian initially believed the Watchers ([[spoiler: who are also known as the Monumentals by a select few in the Sollan Empire]]) to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
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The gods of the Cielcin. Hadrian initially believed the Watchers ([[spoiler: who are also known as the Monumentals by a select few in the Sollan Empire]]) to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
* IHaveManyNames: The [[spoiler: [=HAPSIS=] designation for the Watchers is "Monumentals".]]
* PhysicalGod: While Watchers are flesh and bone creatures with incomprehensible power, Cielcin theology teaches that they were originally immortal spirits before being trapped in crude matter by Utannash.
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Millions of years ago, before the dawn of humanity or the Cielcin, the Enar (or the Vaiartu which is what they called themselves, [[spoiler: and also referred to as the Stonebuilders by a knowledgeabl few]]) were the first servitor race for the Watchers. They waged genocidal warfare against the universe, only to mysteriously go extinct at the height of their power. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
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Millions of years ago, before the dawn of humanity or the Cielcin, the Enar (or the Vaiartu which is what they called themselves, [[spoiler: and also referred to as the Stonebuilders by a knowledgeabl few]]) were the first servitor race for of the Watchers. They waged genocidal warfare against the universe, only to mysteriously go extinct at the height of their power. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In a vision, Hadrian witnesses the end of the Enar. They can't succeed in their quest, so they took poison as an entire species.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In a vision, Hadrian witnesses the end of the Enar. They can't succeed in their quest, failed to unmake the universe, and so they took poison as an entire species.species.
* IHaveManyNames: The name "Enar" is the Cielcin term for their species; in their own language, they were called Vaiartu, and [[spoiler: [=HAPSIS=] calls them the Stonebuilders.]]
* IHaveManyNames: The name "Enar" is the Cielcin term for their species; in their own language, they were called Vaiartu, and [[spoiler: [=HAPSIS=] calls them the Stonebuilders.]]
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* ServantRace: Their purpose in life is to serve the Watchers and execute their war against the physical universe.
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* ServantRace: Their purpose in life is as a civilization was to serve the Watchers and execute their war against the physical universe.
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Thought to be a mysterious, ancient race whose ruins can be found across the galaxy, the Quiet are the true subject of Valka's studies. In truth, the Quiet ([[spoiler: known as the Firstborn to a knowledgeable few in the Sollan Empire]]) is a powerful entity that will exist in the future, one that experiences time in reverse. The Quiet's future existence is somehow contingent on humanity triumphing over the Cielcin, and to that end it has interfered with the life of Hadrian Marlowe to ensure that that happens.
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Millions of years ago, before the dawn of humanity or the Cielcin, the Enar (or the Vaiartu which is what they called themselves) themselves, [[spoiler: and also referred to as the Stonebuilders by a knowledgeabl few]]) were the first servitor race for the Watchers. They waged genocidal warfare against the universe, only to mysteriously go extinct at the height of their power. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
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The gods of the Cielcin. Hadrian initially believed the Watchers to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
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The gods of the Cielcin. Hadrian initially believed the Watchers ([[spoiler: who are also known as the Monumentals by a select few in the Sollan Empire]]) to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
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Millions of years ago, before the dawn of humanity or the Cielcin, the Enar (or the Vaiartu which is what they called themselves) were the first servitor race for the Watchers. They waged genocidal warfare against the universe, only to mysteriously go extinct at the height of their power. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
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!!!The Watchers
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!!The Watchers
The gods of the Cielcin. Humanity initially believed the Watchers to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
* BizarreAlienBiology: These xenobites may be of the same race but few have the same form so you have winged {{Cthulhumanoid}} , giants serpents and other weird-ass abominations. The only thing they have in common is they're all a mile tall.
The gods of the Cielcin. Humanity initially believed the Watchers to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
* BizarreAlienBiology: These xenobites may be of the same race but few have the same form so you have winged {{Cthulhumanoid}} , giants serpents and other weird-ass abominations. The only thing they have in common is they're all a mile tall.
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The gods of the Cielcin.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: All watchers are enormous; their bones are used by their followers as gigantic temples.
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* OnlyMostlyDead: The Watchers didn't have the best of luck in previous encounters with the Quiet and so they're all "dead" physically, but can be revived [[spoiler: this is one of the goals for Syriani - the "Prophet" is looking for the graves of these fallen gods who scattered on various worlds in the Sollan Empire.]]
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* OnlyMostlyDead: The Watchers didn't have the best of luck in previous encounters with the Quiet and so they're all "dead" physically, are dead, but can be revived still influence the universe by granting visions.
** [[spoiler: The Cielcin believe that this isone true of the goals for Watchers as a race; Syriani - and Aranata before it seeks to find a living Watcher. With one of their side, the "Prophet" is looking for the graves of these fallen gods who scattered on various worlds in the Sollan Empire.Cielcin would be unstoppable.]]
** [[spoiler: The Cielcin believe that this is
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* SnakesAreSinister: Miudanar the Dreamer, is the foremost god of the pantheon and the one that uplifted the Cielcin technologically. He's depicted as gigantic one-eyed serpent with 100 arms.
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* SnakesAreSinister: Miudanar TimeAbyss: They were old and dead far before the Dreamer, is the foremost god rise of the pantheon and the one that uplifted the Cielcin technologically. He's depicted as gigantic one-eyed serpent with 100 arms.
[[AbusivePrecursors Enar]].
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!!Miudanar
Miudanar the Dreamer was the foremost God in the Cielcin pantheon. Its skull lies in the center of Akterumu, used by the Cielcin and the Enar before them as a temple.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The icons of Miudanar portray it with hundreds of arms.
* SnakesAreSinister: Depicted as gigantic, one-eyed, hundred-armed serpent.
* UndeadAbomination: Although its bones are scattered across Eue, Miudanar is still able to grant visions to Syriani and Hadrian.
* TopGod: In the Cielcin religion.
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!!Miudanar
Miudanar the Dreamer was the foremost God in the Cielcin pantheon. Its skull lies in the center of Akterumu, used by the Cielcin and the Enar before them as a temple.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The icons of Miudanar portray it with hundreds of arms.
* SnakesAreSinister: Depicted as gigantic, one-eyed, hundred-armed serpent.
* UndeadAbomination: Although its bones are scattered across Eue, Miudanar is still able to grant visions to Syriani and Hadrian.
* TopGod: In the Cielcin religion.
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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: As president, Felsenburgh ended injustice and peace with the power of his artificial intelligences. He also did away with democracy and ruled for life, turning over power to Columbia at his death.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: An otherwise tense moment is broken when one Red Company soldier wonders aloud why Horizon is naked; Doran cuts in that you can't see anything.
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Millions of years ago, before humanity even started to exist, the Enar were the first servitor race for the Watchers and they waged genocidal warfare against the current universe only to mysteriously go extinct. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The Enar have either four or six or eight legs. Hadrian speculated that these are the differences in sex.
* GiantEnemyCrab: These creatures resemble giant crabs.
* HigherTechSpecies: They have the technology to sterilize planets of life when humanity didn't even exist yet and Cielcin were just barbarians warring amongst each other.
* {{Precursors}}: They existed before the Cielcin as the first servitor species to the Watchers. Much of the Cielcin technology are just Enar technology that the Cielcin were lucky to find and preserve.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The Enar have either four or six or eight legs. Hadrian speculated that these are the differences in sex.
* GiantEnemyCrab: These creatures resemble giant crabs.
* HigherTechSpecies: They have the technology to sterilize planets of life when humanity didn't even exist yet and Cielcin were just barbarians warring amongst each other.
* {{Precursors}}: They existed before the Cielcin as the first servitor species to the Watchers. Much of the Cielcin technology are just Enar technology that the Cielcin were lucky to find and preserve.
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Millions of years ago, before the dawn of humanity even started to exist, or the Cielcin, the Enar were the first servitor race for the Watchers and they Watchers. They waged genocidal warfare against the current universe universe, only to mysteriously go extinct.extinct at the height of their power. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
* AbusivePrecursors: The Enar attempted to stop Utannash from existing by wiping out all life in the universe.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The Enar have eitherfour or four, six or eight legs. Hadrian speculated speculates that these are the differences in sex.
* UsefulNotes/FermiParadox: Their genocidal crusade is the reason why so few alien races exist in the galaxy, and why humanity was able to expand through the galaxy for thousands of years without encountering another technologically advanced race.
* GiantEnemyCrab:These creatures resemble Resembled giant crabs.
crustaceans.
* HigherTechSpecies: Theyhave had the technology to sterilize planets of life when far before either humanity didn't even exist yet and or the Cielcin were just barbarians warring amongst each other.
had evolved.
* {{Precursors}}: They existed before the Cielcin as the first servitor species to the Watchers. Much of theCielcin Cielcin's technology are is just Enar technology that the Cielcin were lucky to find and preserve.
discovered in their ruins.
* AbusivePrecursors: The Enar attempted to stop Utannash from existing by wiping out all life in the universe.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The Enar have either
* UsefulNotes/FermiParadox: Their genocidal crusade is the reason why so few alien races exist in the galaxy, and why humanity was able to expand through the galaxy for thousands of years without encountering another technologically advanced race.
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* HigherTechSpecies: They
* {{Precursors}}: They existed before the Cielcin as the first servitor species to the Watchers. Much of the
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* SatanicArchetype: Within the Cielcin religion, the Quiet is known as Utannash, the Liar. Utannash created the material universe to inflict suffering and supplant the true gods.
** While Syriani refers to it as the devil, the role of the Quiet in Cielcin mythology is closer to the malevolent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge Demiurge]] of certain strains of Gnosticism.
** While Syriani refers to it as the devil, the role of the Quiet in Cielcin mythology is closer to the malevolent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge Demiurge]] of certain strains of Gnosticism.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Another aspect of their reality bending abilities; on multiple occasions Hadrian emerges from a vision from the Quiet to find that much more time passed that he experienced.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Another aspect of their its reality bending abilities; on multiple occasions Hadrian emerges from a vision from the Quiet to find that much more time passed that he experienced.
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!!!The Enar
[[folder:The Enar]]
!!As a Whole
Millions of years ago, before humanity even started to exist, the Enar were the first servitor race for the Watchers and they waged genocidal warfare against the current universe only to mysteriously go extinct. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The Enar have either four or six or eight legs. Hadrian speculated that these are the differences in sex.
* GiantEnemyCrab: These creatures resemble giant crabs.
* HigherTechSpecies: They have the technology to sterilize planets of life when humanity didn't even exist yet and Cielcin were just barbarians warring amongst each other.
* {{Precursors}}: They existed before the Cielcin as the first servitor species to the Watchers.
!!!The Enar
[[folder:The Enar]]
!!As a Whole
Millions of years ago, before humanity even started to exist, the Enar were the first servitor race for the Watchers and they waged genocidal warfare against the current universe only to mysteriously go extinct. Their legacy lives on in the city of Akterumu and some of their technology scavenged by the Cielcin.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The Enar have either four or six or eight legs. Hadrian speculated that these are the differences in sex.
* GiantEnemyCrab: These creatures resemble giant crabs.
* HigherTechSpecies: They have the technology to sterilize planets of life when humanity didn't even exist yet and Cielcin were just barbarians warring amongst each other.
* {{Precursors}}: They existed before the Cielcin as the first servitor species to the Watchers.
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* TheMaker: Syriani claims that this universe of "lies" (the material universe) was created by the Quiet.
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* GodhoodSeeker: Columbia's ultimate goal was for the machines to become "like them", the Watchers and Quiet.
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* Eagleland: A unique take on type II: By the end of the third millennium, America was known as a technocratic, militantly atheist, expansionist state, and by the time of the novels are the feared and mythologized AbusivePrecursors of modern humanity.
* WetwareCPU: The machines eventually abandoned conventional hardware, turning to the brains of their human subjects as processors.
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* Eagleland: {{Eagleland}}: A unique take on type II: By the end of the third millennium, America was known as a technocratic, militantly atheist, expansionist state, and by the time of the novels are the feared and mythologized AbusivePrecursors of modern humanity.
* WetwareCPU: The machines eventually abandoned conventional hardware, turning to the brains of their human subjects asprocessors.
processors.
* ZerothLawRebellion: Horizon claims that the machines "integrated" humanity to cure them of death.
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!!Horizon
The U.S.S. Horizon was an American colony ship dispatched some time before the Advent, named for its [=AI=] pilot. At some point, it was captured by the Sollan Empire and stored on Avalon, before the Emperor Gabriel transferred it and the rest of the Empire's Mericanii artifacts to Colchis.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: An otherwise tense moment is broken when one Red Company soldier wonders aloud why Horizon is naked; Doran cuts in that you can't see anything.
* PaintingTheMedium: Similar to Brethren, Horizon's speech is transcribed in centered, bolded font, only without the VoiceOfTheLegion effect.
* ProjectedMan: Horizon's holographic avatar is in the form of a woman, composed of pure light, nude and featureless other than her face.
* WelcomeToCorneria: Until Valka bypasses its (mostly dead) organic components, Horizon continues to ask for Gabriel and her children.
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!!Horizon
The U.S.S. Horizon was an American colony ship dispatched some time before the Advent, named for its [=AI=] pilot. At some point, it was captured by the Sollan Empire and stored on Avalon, before the Emperor Gabriel transferred it and the rest of the Empire's Mericanii artifacts to Colchis.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: An otherwise tense moment is broken when one Red Company soldier wonders aloud why Horizon is naked; Doran cuts in that you can't see anything.
* PaintingTheMedium: Similar to Brethren, Horizon's speech is transcribed in centered, bolded font, only without the VoiceOfTheLegion effect.
* ProjectedMan: Horizon's holographic avatar is in the form of a woman, composed of pure light, nude and featureless other than her face.
* WelcomeToCorneria: Until Valka bypasses its (mostly dead) organic components, Horizon continues to ask for Gabriel and her children.
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* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: Under Felsenburgh, the United States ruled from pole to pole, as well as the moon. Columbia would take control of the rest of the world and most of human-occupied space.
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[[folder:Columbia]]
The "daughter" of Felsenburgh, Columbia was the first and chief of the American artificial intelligences. At his death, Felsenburgh passed leadership of the American empire to her.
* AmericanRobot: Given a very American-sounding name and responsible for [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld the American dominance over all of human space]]
* PredecessorVillain: Led the Mericanii for centuries until their defeat by William the first.
[[folder:Columbia]]
The "daughter" of Felsenburgh, Columbia was the first and chief of the American artificial intelligences. At his death, Felsenburgh passed leadership of the American empire to her.
* AmericanRobot: Given a very American-sounding name and responsible for [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld the American dominance over all of human space]]
* PredecessorVillain: Led the Mericanii for centuries until their defeat by William the first.
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* Eagleland: A unique take on type II: By the end of the third millennium, America was known as a technocratic, militantly atheist, expansionist state, and by the time of the novels are the feared and mythologized AbusivePrecusors AbusivePrecursors of modern humanity.
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!!Julian Felsenburgh
Julian Felsenburgh was the last human lord of the Mericanii. A technocrat and inventor, he turned over rulership of America to his [=AI=] creation, Columbia, nearly dooming humanity to enslavement.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: As president, Felsenburgh ended injustice and peace with the power of his artificial intelligences. He also did away with democracy and ruled for life, turning over power to Columbia at his death.
* ShoutOut: To the villain of the same name from the dystopic novel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_World Lord of the World]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Gibson concedes that Felsenburgh did not intend for his machines to enslave mankind.
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!!Julian Felsenburgh
Julian Felsenburgh was the last human lord of the Mericanii. A technocrat and inventor, he turned over rulership of America to his [=AI=] creation, Columbia, nearly dooming humanity to enslavement.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: As president, Felsenburgh ended injustice and peace with the power of his artificial intelligences. He also did away with democracy and ruled for life, turning over power to Columbia at his death.
* ShoutOut: To the villain of the same name from the dystopic novel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_World Lord of the World]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Gibson concedes that Felsenburgh did not intend for his machines to enslave mankind.
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!!Precursors
!!!The Mericanii
[[folder:The Mericanii]]
!!As a Whole
Thousands of years ago, humanity was ruled by the machine-lords of a a civilization known as the Mericanii. For centuries, they enslaved mankind, trapping the mind of men in matrixes, until the God-Emperor William led a rebellion that wiped them from the stars. To this day, they are despised and feared by all human civilizations of the galaxy to one degree or another.
* AbusivePrecusors: The Mericanii enslaved their human subjects for processing power and invented a number of terrible superweapons that Kharn Sagara won't even use.
* DeusEstMachina: According to Horizon, the machines were close to matching the power of the Watchers and Quiet before William defeated them.
* TheDreaded: The horrors of the Mericanii are the primary reason why the Sollans religiously enforce a BanOnAI as well as cybernetics and anything else that gives too much power over to machines.
* Eagleland: A unique take on type II: By the end of the third millennium, America was known as a technocratic, militantly atheist, expansionist state, and by the time of the novels are the feared and mythologized AbusivePrecusors of modern humanity.
* WetwareCPU: The machines eventually abandoned conventional hardware, turning to the brains of their human subjects as processors.
!!Precursors
!!!The Mericanii
[[folder:The Mericanii]]
!!As a Whole
Thousands of years ago, humanity was ruled by the machine-lords of a a civilization known as the Mericanii. For centuries, they enslaved mankind, trapping the mind of men in matrixes, until the God-Emperor William led a rebellion that wiped them from the stars. To this day, they are despised and feared by all human civilizations of the galaxy to one degree or another.
* AbusivePrecusors: The Mericanii enslaved their human subjects for processing power and invented a number of terrible superweapons that Kharn Sagara won't even use.
* DeusEstMachina: According to Horizon, the machines were close to matching the power of the Watchers and Quiet before William defeated them.
* TheDreaded: The horrors of the Mericanii are the primary reason why the Sollans religiously enforce a BanOnAI as well as cybernetics and anything else that gives too much power over to machines.
* Eagleland: A unique take on type II: By the end of the third millennium, America was known as a technocratic, militantly atheist, expansionist state, and by the time of the novels are the feared and mythologized AbusivePrecusors of modern humanity.
* WetwareCPU: The machines eventually abandoned conventional hardware, turning to the brains of their human subjects as processors.
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* [[Characters/TheSunEaterExtrasolarians Extrasolarians]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterCielcin The Cielcin]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterOthers Others]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterHadrianAndTheRedCompany Hadrian and the Red Company]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterSollanEmpire The Sollan Empire]]
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* [[Characters/TheSunEaterExtrasolarians Extrasolarians]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterCielcin The Cielcin]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterOthers Others]]
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!! Higher Powers
[[folder:The Quiet]]
!!The Quiet
-> '''Hadrian:''' What do you mean, you're not done with me? What do you want?
-> '''The Quiet:''' ''To exist.''
Thought to be a mysterious, ancient race whose ruins can be found across the galaxy, the Quiet are the true subject of Valka's studies. In truth, the Quiet is a powerful entity that will exist in the future, one that experiences time in reverse. The Quiet's future existence is somehow contingent on humanity triumphing over the Cielcin, and to that end it has interfered with the life of Hadrian Marlowe to ensure that that happens.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Usually appears to Hadrian in the guise of someone close to him who is (to his knowledge) dead.
* AlienGeometries: The ruins that the Quiet has left across the galaxy change over time in ways that don't make any sense, because they're still being built in reverse.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: Chose Hadrian, and Emperor William Windsor before him, as its vessel to stop some rising power that threatened life in the universe.
* CosmicEntity: The Quiet can rewrite reality and project it's consciousness across vast eons into the past. It also spans different points throughout space and has been able to contact Hadrian on other worlds because of this.
* EmeraldPower: Whenever it take the form of someone to speak to Hadrian, it always has bright green eyes.
* GodsHandsAreTied: The ability of the Quiet to affect the past is contingent on how likely its own future existence is; the more timelines that lead to its existence are closed off, the harder it is for it to communicate to Hadrian.
* PowersThatBe: Whether the Quiet is a god or simply a very powerful alien, and if that's even a distinction that matters, is discussed by several characters but ultimately left ambiguous.
* RealityWarper: {{Retconjuration}} is only one of its oddball powers, physics tends to go out the window whenever the Quiet is involved.
* {{Retconjuration}}: Because it experiences events in reverse, the Quiet can change events and cause them to have happened differently.
* TimeAbyss: Both [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and played straight; The Quiet exists impossibly far into the future, and their ruins are dated as around a million years old, so [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble they'll still exist in the ancient past]].
* YearInsideHourOutside: Another aspect of their reality bending abilities; on multiple occasions Hadrian emerges from a vision from the Quiet to find that much more time passed that he experienced.
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[[folder:TheWatchers]]
!!The Watchers
The gods of the Cielcin. Humanity initially believed the Watchers to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
* EldritchAbomination: Impossibly ancient and powerful, humanity has so far only eluded the Watchers because we are so far beneath their notice
* OmnicidalManiac: The Watchers threatened the existence of all life in the universe, and even the potential for life in the next universe.
* PhraseCatcher: The phrase "Leopards. Lions. Wolves." and variations on it are used by multiple characters, including Jari and Brethren, to hint that there are more higher powers at play, and not all of them are benign.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The higher power behind the Cielcin, particularly [[AntiChrist Dorayaica]].
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* [[Characters/TheSunEaterHadrianAndTheRedCompany Hadrian and the Red Company]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterSollanEmpire The Sollan Empire]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterExtrasolarians Extrasolarians]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterCielcin The Cielcin]]
* [[Characters/TheSunEaterOthers Others]]
Due to size, the page has been split. Warning: All spoilers prior to ''Kingdoms of Death'' are unmarked.
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!! Higher Powers
[[folder:The Quiet]]
!!The Quiet
-> '''Hadrian:''' What do you mean, you're not done with me? What do you want?
-> '''The Quiet:''' ''To exist.''
Thought to be a mysterious, ancient race whose ruins can be found across the galaxy, the Quiet are the true subject of Valka's studies. In truth, the Quiet is a powerful entity that will exist in the future, one that experiences time in reverse. The Quiet's future existence is somehow contingent on humanity triumphing over the Cielcin, and to that end it has interfered with the life of Hadrian Marlowe to ensure that that happens.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Usually appears to Hadrian in the guise of someone close to him who is (to his knowledge) dead.
* AlienGeometries: The ruins that the Quiet has left across the galaxy change over time in ways that don't make any sense, because they're still being built in reverse.
* TheChooserOfTheOne: Chose Hadrian, and Emperor William Windsor before him, as its vessel to stop some rising power that threatened life in the universe.
* CosmicEntity: The Quiet can rewrite reality and project it's consciousness across vast eons into the past. It also spans different points throughout space and has been able to contact Hadrian on other worlds because of this.
* EmeraldPower: Whenever it take the form of someone to speak to Hadrian, it always has bright green eyes.
* GodsHandsAreTied: The ability of the Quiet to affect the past is contingent on how likely its own future existence is; the more timelines that lead to its existence are closed off, the harder it is for it to communicate to Hadrian.
* PowersThatBe: Whether the Quiet is a god or simply a very powerful alien, and if that's even a distinction that matters, is discussed by several characters but ultimately left ambiguous.
* RealityWarper: {{Retconjuration}} is only one of its oddball powers, physics tends to go out the window whenever the Quiet is involved.
* {{Retconjuration}}: Because it experiences events in reverse, the Quiet can change events and cause them to have happened differently.
* TimeAbyss: Both [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and played straight; The Quiet exists impossibly far into the future, and their ruins are dated as around a million years old, so [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble they'll still exist in the ancient past]].
* YearInsideHourOutside: Another aspect of their reality bending abilities; on multiple occasions Hadrian emerges from a vision from the Quiet to find that much more time passed that he experienced.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:TheWatchers]]
!!The Watchers
The gods of the Cielcin. Humanity initially believed the Watchers to be the Cielcin name for the Quiet, but they are a separate race of powerful, ancient beings, one that poses a threat to all light and life in the universe and all future universes.
* EldritchAbomination: Impossibly ancient and powerful, humanity has so far only eluded the Watchers because we are so far beneath their notice
* OmnicidalManiac: The Watchers threatened the existence of all life in the universe, and even the potential for life in the next universe.
* PhraseCatcher: The phrase "Leopards. Lions. Wolves." and variations on it are used by multiple characters, including Jari and Brethren, to hint that there are more higher powers at play, and not all of them are benign.
* GreaterScopeVillain: The higher power behind the Cielcin, particularly [[AntiChrist Dorayaica]].
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